2025-04-13
Bill Maher on His Dinner at the White House With Donald Trump
Bill Maher personifies the difference between a liberal (which he is) and a leftist (which he isn’t). But he’s been a stridently vocal critic of Trump since long before Trump...
I am catching up on what happened in season one of The...
I am catching up on what happened in season one of The Last of Us by watching and reading recaps. Season 2 starts tonight on HBO & Max at 9pm...
Thoughts on the Double Impact Project
Published on April 13, 2025 7:07 PM GMTHow it worksYou donate to the Republican or Democratic pool. The pool with the highest amount donates what it has more at the...
Microsoft is finally rolling out its controversial Recall feature that screenshots everything you do (again), but only for select users
Microsoft's recalled Recall feature is un-recalled once again.
Google Is Helping Government Build an AI-Powered Border Surveillance System
Remember the guys who found a way to turn your personal information into cold hard cash? They're now a key part of president Donald Trump's AI-powered border dystopia, according to...
You’re Building the Wrong Startup: Coders Build Supply, Investors Fund Pain
There’s a heartbreak every technical founder goes through.
‘What It Feels Like, Right Now’
Crackerjack essay by Chuck Wendig: Maybe it’s like turbulence on an airplane, you think. Just a bumpy unpleasant awful experience you gotta get through. But when turbulence hits it’s not...
Chris Whipple on the End of the Biden Administration
Vanity Fair published an excerpt from Chris Whipple’s new book on the final years of Joe Biden’s presidency, under the headline “Did Aides Cover Up His Mental State — or...
Jamelle Bouie on Trump’s Tariff Obsession
Jamelle Bouie, writing at The New York Times (gift link): There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He...
MRI Scans Causing Nasty Material to Form Inside Body, Scientists Find
Scientists believe they may have found the reason why some people get so sick from the contrast dye injected into the bodies of people before they get magnetic resonance imaging...
The underrated, open world, hoverboard FPS gem of 2024 just got a free update with new guns and islands for its cloud archipelago
Echo Point Nova is a great game worth checking out.
Intro to Multi-Agent Safety
Published on April 13, 2025 5:40 PM GMTWe live in a world where numerous agents, ranging from individuals to organisations, constantly interact. Without the ability to model multi-agent systems, making...
Baby Born to Woman With Transplanted Womb
In Scotland, a woman successfully gave birth to a baby girl after getting a womb transplant from her sister. As the BBC reports, couple Grace and Angus Davidsin welcomed baby...
The Markup and the Curious Case of the Tricky Timeout Bug
At The Markup, we often do investigations focused on user privacy, or the lack thereof. So much so that we built a tool to help everyone do it. One of...
Is Virtual Reality Bad for Your Mental Health?
Virtual reality is growing in popularity, but does this escape from reality harm their mental health? VR can cause disassociation and reality confusion, social isolation, increased anxiety and panic, and...
Marvel Rivals sneakily implements 'butt patch' that cakes up every male character in the game
The cheeks update spares no man.
Poll Finds Americans Are Largely Disgusted by AI-Generated News
As the United States' biggest news brands experiment with artificial intelligence in their content, a near-majority of readers seem pretty peeved about it. In a new poll conducted by Poynter...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: How Clapper is Revolutionizing the Creator Economy (4/13/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 13, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Apollo 13 explosion...
Judge Goes Ballistic When Man Shows AI-Generated Video in Court
A 74-year-old entrepreneur played an entirely AI-generated video of his own likeness to address the judge during a court appearance. And as The Register reports, the judge was unsurprisingly unimpressed...
Vestigial reasoning in RL
Published on April 13, 2025 3:40 PM GMTTL;DR: I claim that many reasoning patterns that appear in chains-of-thought are not actually used by the model to come to its answer,...
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